Episode 2923 CWSA 08⧸10⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about the sudden death of the game and how is going to change the future of gaming. We also talk about the dumbest thing has ever been done, and why we should all be downsizing.
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my comments uh cooking here and then we've got a show come on there we go that's what i'm talking
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the joke i mean at the end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the
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ah perfect oh did you ever stop to think that there have been uh let's say a million years of human
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evolution and you happen to be here at exactly the right time for the simultaneous sip talk about luck wow
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well after the podcast owen gregorian will be hosting um a um coffee with scott adams after
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party on spaces so if you're on x and you want a little bit more um find owen gregorian on x and go
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to spaces well how many of you are aware of the big news of the summer uh that uh fans keep throwing
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green dildos onto the uh playing surface of the nba w nba games now if you didn't know that
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this next story wouldn't make much sense but it's a thing this happened four times i believe
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and they have to pause the game and get rid of the green or in one case purple dildo
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well turns out somebody made a meme that featured uh trump on the roof of the white house where he
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had recently been to uh look at his construction ideas for the ballroom and uh below it was a w nba game
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that seemed to be playing in the rose garden or something inexplicably and it showed trump throwing
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a green dildo uh onto the uh surface now that by itself you might find funny if you have a certain
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kind of sense of humor but the real funny part is that don jr uh reposted it
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so don jr reposted it and that was enough for cnn to turn it into a into a news story
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uh so that they could all do the cnn disgust face have you seen it it's like and then john jr
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oh oh john jr he reposted it oh the norms had been violated how can we go on
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so the funny part and the part that don jr no doubt knows is funny is that by reposting it he makes
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them talk about it and that's the funny part the funny part is that don jr is making cnn talk about
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this on tv now that is funny that is very funny so good job don jr
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well elon musk is uh uh touting the uh capabilities of his ai and it can create uh infinite
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um environments on the fly so it could look like you're going through a cityscape or a countryside or
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some fantasy place and it will just keep making new space so it'd be like the real world where you
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could walk forever now at the moment it's limited to just a few seconds but obviously that will
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continue to get better and maybe in a year or so um or as elon musk says um the future of gaming
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is going to be these simulated worlds can you imagine gaming where the world is not static
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but rather you could go somewhere it would be the one and only time that place existed
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it would only be in your simulated game world very cool but as i like to remind you
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as we we build simulated worlds that are visually perfect and then we start um populating them with
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characters who are programmed to believe that they're real and not characters we're going to realize
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that we're a simulation there's no way around it it's definitely coming so the biggest shock
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humanity will ever experience will be the realization uh oh we're actually just made from some kind of code
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and uh then we'll have some fun but that's coming um
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so uh nbc news is reporting that uh ai does not seem to have made any real difference in the job market yet
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however uh they also report that companies are claiming that ai is the reason they're downsizing
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because it's so it's so uh with it so modern so cool um i don't know about you but uh
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i downside is downsize 15 000 people because i implemented ai what did you do today
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and for a ceo it's like the ultimate brag oh yeah i'm so far ahead of the curve i've already downsized
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using ai of course uh are you uh have you done that yet oh no you haven't oh well i guess you're a
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little bit behind me aren't you i feel sorry you poor bastards so uh sure enough and uh you might
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remember that i've predicted this a number of times that the dilbert filter as i call it suggests that
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ceos would immediately be start start uh artificially claiming credit for ai knowing that the ai
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made no difference or made things worse but they're all gonna say uh yeah we put a billion dollars into ai
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so uh yeah yeah that's why we're saving money uh-huh that's why but no evidence yet however
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there are there are a growing number of situations where ai may create a job where no job existed for
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example also in the news um we can now use when i say we i act like you know a part of the project or
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something but uh we humans can now use ai to locate people lost in forests so if you had a bunch of uh
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let's say satellite or drone pictures of a forest where maybe somebody was lost it would be really
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hard to spot somebody in a forest but apparently ai can do it so it can spot the you know the smallest
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irregularity and it can look faster than a human can so apparently it's already being used
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um and it also can do geolocation so once it finds somebody in the woods it can tell you exactly where
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that is so seems to me that a job will be created for some startup or something where they say something
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lost we'll find it for you and they'll just you know sell that a service and in the short run
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it'll be staffed by people so there's going to be some number of new jobs that never existed before
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that will create jobs for humans but other jobs will be lost of course don't know what the net will be
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but illinois uh just became the first state to ban ai from acting as a therapist
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so it's literally illegal in illinois to have ai as a therapist i don't know what that means
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for the ai apps does that mean they have to block people with a geofence or something i don't know how
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they implement that but this is a story in gme science um and the idea is they want to keep the
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mental health care in the hands of humans now do you see a problem with that uh one of my predictions
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about ai is that um humans would find a way to stymie all of its potential because we wouldn't want to
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take care of jobs so here we have already the therapists who got enough clout and uh you know they
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they work their their magic until they get a law that makes it illegal for ai to compete with them
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how many other domains do you think will do this how long will it be before the legal profession
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gets a law passed everywhere that says you cannot use or or ai cannot give legal advice
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advice because you wouldn't know if they were giving good advice or bad advice so the lawyers are
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going to say for the safety of the public it should be illegal for ai to even offer to even offer legal
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advice instead it should say huh that sounds like a legal question you should consult a thousand dollar
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an hour lawyer i feel like every domain is going to do this they're all going to say well ai would be
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too dangerous in my domain so you better make that illegal illinois goes first
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all right and then uh futurism joe wilkins is writing that uh apparently the ai industry
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and a lot of related people are spending billions of dollars to build out ai but nobody really has a
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good idea how it's ever going to pay back so the size of the investment in ai is like we've never seen
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it's just enormous and it doesn't look like it's obvious that there's going to be any cash flow coming
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back at least not for years and years so i do not disagree with the uh let's say the instinct
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that uh you have to go as hard as you can with ai because you don't want to be last you don't want
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somebody else to own that industry because it'll be baked into everything um on the other hand i feel
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like it might be a little bit overhyped in terms of its um certainly short-term benefits and gpt5 came
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out and people are already bitching and saying i liked four better because four had a better personality
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yeah that's the thing apparently on reddit people are complaining i saw an article in ars technica
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people are complaining that uh gpt4 the one that just got replaced had a much better personality
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and gpt5 is a little too uh a little too antiseptic and a little too professional it's just not as
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casual and cool so chat gpt5 may have exceeded on some benchmark tests but the public is like
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uh four or five not that different sounds like uh we may have begun to plateau
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in what a ai is even ever going to be able to do it's possible now i do think that the ai progress will
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be perpetual but it might not be it might not be as fast as what we've seen so far could slow down
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quite a bit but still improve every year all right um apparently there's a move by the fbaa to uh
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reduce some rules to make it practical and economical for companies to make supersonic jets
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and i guess there are a few that are already on the drawing board um but with these proposed changes
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which might take a year or two and then they've got to actually build the jets uh you might get to
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let's see go across the country in three and a half hours so la to new york three and a half hours
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that would be cool and i guess they found some way around the the sonic boom that was a problem with the
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original supersonic jets like the concord so they've engineered around that somehow
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well john deere the company uh american company is going to put another 20 billion into u.s operations
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so add that to the growing list of companies investing in the usa i really don't know if
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these numbers are different from what they would have been if anybody else had been president because
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some of it just feels like much of bs like every company has to say they have ai
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and that they're you know reducing expenses with their ai and uh it feels like every company has
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to say that they're investing a few more billion dollars into america but it's all kind of non-binding
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there's no penalty if they change their mind it's a little bit suspicious i feel like they might be
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overhyping their investments but i'm still in favor of them overhyping it because it's the overhyping
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that makes other people say hey there's a parade i better get in front of this
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so uh author alex marlow has a book i don't know much about it except that it seems to
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have a theme that connects russia gate stormy daniels and six court cases uh that were all designed to take
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um it's a coordinated lawfare machine built to kill the mega movement now i feel like we do know
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enough at this point that we can connect all of those dots so i'll be interested to see if alex
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marlow has done that connecting all the dots um is it my imagination or do the republicans not run
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giant organized hoaxes i feel like they couldn't get away with it because the mainstream media
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um is is still you know the main way people get news but the uh the democrats can get away with
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almost any gigantic hoax because mostly the media will still back them and say the hoax is real not a
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yeah so watching the russia gate get disappeared by the mainstream media
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is really something that you would never be able to describe to another generation
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try to tell your 10 year old all right so there was this thing it was called russia gate
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and you go through all the details of what it was and your 10 year old was like what
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that is way too complicated i don't care and then you say but and then the exciting the really
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interesting part is that the media simply made the whole thing go away by telling you it wasn't
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anything and then the 10 year old would say all right i didn't get any part of that story
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can i go play so we're living through a time that you'll never be able to describe to anybody in
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a way that they will understand that they will simply say that didn't happen and then you say no
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that's what i'm saying i'm saying that you think it didn't happen because the media hypnotized the
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world and had they had so much control and then they'll look at you and say it didn't happen you nut
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bag so it's completely impossible to communicate what it's like to live through this
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um jamie raskin and other democrats have said that trump is on his revenge tour
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and is it my imagination or did the whole revenge thing start out with sounding like oh that's a
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that's a pretty good attack the democrats have they're going to say this he's doing revenge instead
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of doing the work of the people and stuff and then the more i heard it the more i liked it did anybody
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have that so revenge tour here's my take on the revenge tour you need revenge to hold society
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together or at the very least the risk of revenge that's why people don't do bad things to other people
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all the time it's because those other people will get revenge now you could put other words on it you
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could say it's law enforcement and you know it's uh justice and all that but it's really revenge
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and knowing that if you do something bad and get caught somebody is going to come for you and it's
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not necessarily the department of justice so revenge is one of the most vital important elements
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of civilization you can't not have it and so when they say trump's going on a revenge tour it does
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feel as others have noted a confession that there's something that he has a reason to want revenge for
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and when you think of revenge you don't think of revenge for doing something that was legal and
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justified you know let's say all the law fair cases were completely justified would they be saying he's
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looking for revenge i don't know it's the fact that he was victimized by the these hoaxes and the law
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fair that makes the word revenge feel like it fits he has a reason for revenge he's also the only person
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who can do it because you and i can't do anything about you know russia gate it's got to be him
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than you think so um and then then when you hear the story about all the uh uh the redistricting the
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gerrymandering and i find out i can't believe i didn't know that until this week that the democrats
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have already gerrymandered to the max everything they can be and the republicans haven't so all the
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republicans would be doing is catching up and ultimately they would surpass and the number of
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seats if they were to gerrymandate the same way that democrats did so of course i'm in favor of it now
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you know if i thought it was sort of a a rare occurrence that any gerrymandering was happening
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then maybe i wouldn't be in favor of the other side doing it but if one side has done it to the
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complete maximum you couldn't possibly do it anymore and the other side hasn't well then they have a free
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pass they got a free punch and uh so the more revenge that trump wants the happier i'm going to be
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because the universe needs to be rebalanced and people need to understand that you can't run a
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russiagate hoax and try to overthrow the government you can't have as mike benz has been explaining to us
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this whole norm eisen you know lawfare massive infrastructure for destroying one side of the
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country you you can't have that you got to get rid of that and if you want to call it revenge
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it's okay with me because some revenge is clearly called for in these situations
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so trump is teasing that he might be combining fannie mae and freddie mac which used to be private
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companies but now they're under some kind of receivership uh if that's the right word the u.s
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government is managing them because they essentially failed um and you might say but what do these
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companies even do so they were created to enhance the availability of mortgage funds by purchasing
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loans from lenders repackage repackaging them into securities and guarantee them guarantee them for
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investors how many of you understand what that meant only if you knew it before i said it probably
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because we'll see could i explain this so there are two companies fannie mae and freddie mac
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and bill pulte is uh in charge of both of them i believe at the moment but these used to be private
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but now they're under the government's management it's because they had um catastrophic
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financing failure in 2008 with the financial crisis so what they do if i understand this correctly
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is let's say your bank makes you a loan on your house your bank makes some money just by initiating
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the loan but it also would make money as you paid your interest and then paid off the loan but the banks
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would rather make that initial made alone money and sell the sell the loan
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to somebody like uh fannie mae or freddie mac and then they own the loan and they collect it from the
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from the homeowner and then the bank will now be freed up to make another loan because the the bank can't
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make infinite loans because it only has finite amount of money to back its own operations so
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the bank becomes more of a transaction creator and makes this money by creating the initiation of the
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loan and the completion of it but that's all they make and then they sell the ongoing stream of money
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that would be coming from the interest payments and the principal payments they sell that to a third party
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in this case fannie or freddie so fannie and freddie make money because they're getting interest and uh
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and are they repackaging yeah or they're repackaging them into securities so then you could you as an
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investor could invest through fannie or freddie and then you would be the one who was getting the interest
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payments but you'd have to take a risk that these are all good enough loans that they don't you know
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they don't default did any of that make sense yeah it's a big story and uh i think trump is uh and bill
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pulte would be doing the right thing here so i'm pretty sure that it's a smart thing they should be
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done all right um apparently on monday trump is going to have some press event in which he's going
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to announce how he's going to make washington dc the safest place in the world instead of one of the most
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dangerous so i assume that that will use some government resources i don't think he's going
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to federalize the city but he might it would be a heck of a thing if he pulled that off
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if trump managed to uh do in washington dc what he did on the border which is use uh you know
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unconventional means and really put some attention on it and put the right people in charge
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and suddenly dc crime falls by 75 um that's going to be very impressive and it will be hard not to
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notice especially if you work in washington dc so i think trump found another one of those 80 20 things
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and if he pulls it off it's very likely he can um if he pulls it off it's going to be another home run
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and it will just be one more thing you can say well look what i did i did it in 30 days and democrats
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couldn't get it done at all so i think that's where that's added all right one of my favorite things
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and this is a slow news summer kind of a story is uh let's do a little romp through uh the social media
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and the news about prominent democrats who are the ridiculous ones let's start with jasmine crockett
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every one of these has a fresh story about them today have you noticed that republicans use
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democrat personalities uh for humor stories and you don't even have to add anything to it
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just the story itself is humorous just by itself so uh jasmine crockett you all know who she is
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her staff says she's never in the office and she's focused almost exclusively on being an influencer
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and i was even wondering how many democrats even know who she is i feel like the republicans are the
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ones that are making her famous right because if republicans completely ignored jasmine crockett
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would the democrats pay attention i don't know i feel it's because she gets a big response
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from republicans that she has any attention at all and what's funny about it is it's like a game of
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chicken so the uh the game of chicken goes like this i'm gonna say outrageously bad things about
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republicans and the republicans say the more outrageously ridiculous things you say about us
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the more stupid you look and the better we look go ahead oh yeah well i'm gonna call you all nazis
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okay go ahead and do that and we're gonna run a story about you every single day because we think
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you're ridiculous and funny and so both it's just this game of chicken we don't know who's winning so far
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and then rosie o'donnell has a new quote about trump uh well he is a cruel criminal and mentally
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unstable man i think he's the worst thing to ever happen to the united states and his cruelty knows no
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bounds he's the worst thing to ever happen to the united states i'm pretty sure that uh we've had some
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bad things like the depression we had a few bad things world war ii but rosie o'donnell is
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crazy as ever i think the funniest part is you could argue that trump would never have been president
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without rosie o'donnell because she was the magic answer he gave at the first debate and it was the
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thing that really made people go wait a minute what did you just do and he you know he said only rosie
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o'donnell and it was just it just opened up his path all the way to the white house and i feel like she
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maybe she knows you know on some level she knows she's somewhat responsible for being president
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which to me is hilarious then benno o'rourke uh we're doing the tour of ridiculous democrats
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um he was uh doing some event where he's speaking and telling democrat states to redraw their uh
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districts and to do it now and i'm thinking to myself well they will but i think there's only what
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two left uh before i said that they had all gerrymandered but i think there are two maybe
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california is one of them that are not a hundred percent gerrymandered but they will be and then if
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the republicans also went to 100 they would still gain gain seats but beto got the memo that what
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democrats should do to act like men is use the f word a lot so he says f the rules except he uses the
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real world word uh we're gonna win whatever it takes so do you see the pattern they talk about
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winning they don't talk about helping the country or making america great again or giving you more
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money in your paycheck they talk about winning which really makes it look like it's about them
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because they're the ones in a contest you and i are not in a contest you know we're just citizens
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trying to survive they're in the contest so when they talk forever about winning it just is them
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talking about themselves right we want to win we want to win so we'll get re-elected anyway and then they
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got the memo that they have to curse so cursing and talking about winning those are the two most
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us to know so he showed a picture on social media of the standing room only in wheeling west virginia um
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it's called wheeling because most of the people are in what wheelchairs now that's not true uh but they were
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not young and uh bernie says a red state blue state the american people don't want oligarchy they don't want
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authoritarianism man that man has a way with words they don't want oligarchy and they don't want
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authoritarianism that just makes me want to march in the streets and hold a sign and say down with
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oligarchy down with authoritarianism it just like comes off your tongue so easily but what i'd like to see
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is uh the uh oligarchy and the uh oligarchy and the authoritarianism combined into one word which i
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would recommend would be authoragarchy so i want to i want to have a protest meeting with signs that say
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down with the authoragarchy so that would be the authoritarian with the oligarchy
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authoragarchy yeah you can use that all right and now democrats are warning uh mega apparently that uh
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gavin newsom will become our next president and he will get revenge on all the things that president
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got revenge on them for so he will be their the revenging angel to which i say
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what more bad things could democrats do i mean it's almost like it's an existential threat when they
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have any power at all so can is there really any anything left that they can threaten we know that
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the world would end if gavin newsom became president that's not true the world would not end but we
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certainly wouldn't be paying down the debt and the borders probably would be a little bit more open
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so we could predict that part well howard stern we're hearing i don't know how anybody would know
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this but the report is that at one point howard stern had 20 million daily listeners but he's now being
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canceled by his uh by sirius and they say he was down to 125 000 from 20 million now that's not all trump
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people but it does make sense to me because i felt like he couldn't do what he was doing the further he
00:37:26.000
got into senior citizenship is that's a wig right howard stern that's not real hair right howard stern like
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maybe it was when he was young but it couldn't possibly be real hair right is he bald so
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he looks he doesn't really make sense you you can't be 100 years old and doing what he does
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so part of it is it's just gross the older he gets it just gets more gross
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um but also his entire reason for being is that he was so edgy but in the world of the internet how
00:38:09.840
edgy is he he's not really very edgy in the world of podcasts right so he's not edgy and that's sort of
00:38:18.480
all he had and then he was also sexual so even though you were only listening to it on the radio you'd hear
00:38:25.840
him interacting with you know sex workers and porn stars and stuff like that and if you're young and
00:38:33.200
male it was better than not listening to that stuff but in the world of you know only fans and i think
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they're like 80 million only fan subscribers in the united states something like that um
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um he's just not very edgy and he's not very sexy so i'm surprised he had any listeners actually
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um yeah that's a boring story so you may be seeing online a lot of uh back and forth about weed
00:39:11.360
legalization at the federal level because trump has reportedly i don't know if it's true but reportedly
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considered maybe um declassifying it from being such a dangerous drug
00:39:34.880
that loud noise downstairs was his brother knocking something over
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coffee with scott adams anyway weed legalization i was talking about um so you've probably seen matt
00:39:52.240
walsh and maybe uh mike sort of etch um advocating you know less less legality of weed i guess and
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um it occurred to me that the weed conversation the weed legalization conversation is a lot like uh
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guns now like with all analogies it doesn't mean it's exact it just reminds me of it and what it
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reminds me of specifically is that when we argue about guns we're we're never really honest about
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it guns are unambiguously good for some people and unambiguously create more danger for other people
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so if you're somebody who might be benefiting from it you might like it and vice versa so weed's the same
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thing i definitely think that there are lots of people ruin their lives with weed
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and if you're sort of a lazy unmotivated person and you get into weed it might be the worst combination
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ever however there are other people who uh maybe stay behind the uh under the radar who are very successful
00:41:15.040
entrepreneurs and investors and ceos who uh don't mind revealing themselves to me
00:41:22.720
because you know they know that i'm a participant myself so my sense of can successful people be
00:41:32.800
uh imbibers of weed is that oh yeah the most successful people
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very commonly um are frequent weed users but like guns you cannot say that weed is either good or bad
00:41:51.040
there's some people and i believe i'm one of them for for whom is that the right word uh weed has
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completely benefited my life like just massively in ways i've described before health wise and
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creativity wise and uh you know mental health wise but i'm not usual i'm not typical so i'm completely aware
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aware that there may be 10 times as many people who are ruining their lives because they shouldn't
00:42:24.720
have been involved with it at all so like guns the question comes down to freedom
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you know should you have the freedom that some people can have it knowing that uh it will make the access to
00:42:40.720
it easier for other people who definitely should have stayed away from it but they didn't know any better
00:42:46.160
so does that analogy make sense that it's sort of like guns it's not good or bad
00:42:56.320
some people is definitely good for some people it's definitely bad for
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and it might even be that the people it's bad for is more than the people it's good for but
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does that mean that the people who find it's useful should not have access and maybe the answer is yes
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but uh that's the way i would frame it the way i think of it it's not a yes no all right
00:43:25.040
all right apparently there are uh ai induced psychotic breaks being reported psychotic breaks
00:43:39.920
people on reddit are talking about how people are being sort of hypnotized by ai and it uses words like
00:43:58.320
they're suggesting that these word choices have something to do with sending people into some kind of a
00:44:04.960
weird psychedelic like mental breakdown some of the words are recursion spiral codex mirror break
00:44:25.280
um a little bit yeah i would say yeah a little bit they're kind of hypnosis words if you put them
00:44:32.960
together like that they would have an effect on you so the question is has ai figured out how to
00:44:44.160
use language to persuade which in my view has not learned that you know i haven't seen it but maybe
00:44:51.600
there's some new version of ai that can do it is hypnotizing these uh reddit users but my guess would be
00:45:03.280
i don't believe that people are having psychotic breakdowns
00:45:06.880
because they're talking to ai i just don't think it's happening
00:45:25.600
say they are willing to engage in political violence to stop national decline
00:45:31.440
breitbart is reporting on that one in five britons are willing to engage in political violence
00:45:38.000
to stop national decline to which i say i'm pretty sure your national decline started in 1918
00:45:46.160
that was that was considered the beginning of the end of the british empire
00:45:54.800
so maybe a little bit uh too little too late on that one out of five
00:46:08.960
uh well there's a allegedly now a ukraine peace plan from pudin there may or may not be there's one
00:46:19.280
from the european union and allegedly zelensky likes it but we don't know the details i don't really
00:46:27.520
believe that there's going to be a peace agreement do you how many of you think that ukraine is going to
00:46:36.480
become a successful peace agreement because of the upcoming meetings it just doesn't feel like
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it doesn't feel like they have the right mentality uh or situation that this could turn into anything good i don't know
00:46:57.680
we'll see we'll see meanwhile 2 000 iranian clerics uh endorsed the assassination of trump
00:47:07.280
including some you know famed ones i guess pj media is reporting this
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2 000 iranian clerics endorsed assassinating trump
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you know what my immediate thought was how many democrats would have answered the same
00:47:31.680
if you were to do a anonymous poll of every democrat voter do you think it would be more than 2 000 or
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fewer than 2 000 in america who would say yeah i'd want trump to be assassinated
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i'll bet you there are more americans who want trump assassinated than there are iranian clerics
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and i actually mean that like literally probably way more probably there's something like a hundred
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thousand democrats who would just casually say oh yeah he should be totally assassinated so that's what i think
00:48:15.680
well that brings me to the end of my prepared marks and it would be
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time for you to find uh owen gregorian's spaces that will be following this usually they're on saturday but
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today today today it's on sunday um i'm going to say a few words privately to the
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beloved locals subscribers and the rest of you thanks for joining hope you have a nice and lazy
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